The market demand is hyper focused on reactionary credentialism fundamentalism. So good luck with suggesting something new. In true doublespeak fashion you ca

The market demand is hyper focused on reactionary credentialism fundamentalism. So good luck with suggesting something new. In true doublespeak fashion you can name something an "education system" all you want, but that doesn't mean it necessarily educates or even does vocational training. Edited to add: The weirdest lifestyle of my entire life has to have been school related, both K-12 and college. It is like visiting a very foreign land. Its just bizarre, compared to real life. For a weird alternative history mind bender experience imagine trying to re set your current home and work life into the lifestyle and culture of high school or freshmen year of college. And I'm not talking about trivial things like music fads or drug experimentation but basic things like interpersonal relationships and the social structure both among the students and "authority". And slavish devotion to the factory clock although the factory closed and moved overseas in my dad's generation. I would imagine literature like this already exists, but it would be so weird as to be unreadable. This is what makes intense credentialism so weird. The way we prepare our youth for life is to have them compete against each other in an RPG where the rules and stats are in constant unknowable flux and the goal is uncertain but may be academic or sports or drug experimentation or sex experiences, with a little binge drinking, then the winner (which seems to depend mostly on inherited genetics and luck and stamina) gets handed the controls of a nuclear reactor. It makes the hazing that .mil basic trainees go thru seem calm, wise, and rational. Everyone agrees its time to fire the GM and replace the whole RPG with a sane new set of rules. No one can agree on which rules, and the guys in charge, who happened to be pretty good at the old game, want nothing to change other than at most a reskin of the game art, if that much.